Matthew Olden<\/p>\n
Curriculum Vitae
\nMobile: 07905 113172<\/p>\n
Email: robotmonkeytank@gmail.com<\/p>\n
Matthew Olden<\/a> has been a\u00a0 <\/span>computer artist since 1996. He makes a wide range of computer programs that make music, do visuals and manipulate data.<\/p>\n Matthew started to design and build\u00a0 <\/span>his own generative software audio-visual engine, i am the mighty jungulator , described as ‘the sonic philosopher’s stone’ by Future Music magazine. <\/span>20 years down the line Matthew still is developing\u00a0 <\/span>generative software updating and refining his original vision. Matthew, with his band, won best new electronic act at the 2004 Diesel New Music Awards, with 3 (unbeknown to the judges) generative pieces of music.<\/p>\n Matthew makes music, under the many names, i am the mighty jungulator being one of them. He is also friends with Fancy Cat. He distributes his music willy-nilly via the internet, he still can\u2019t work out why his music is on Spotify, he never gave them permission and no one answers his emails to find out why. Amazon also sells pirated t-shirts of his LP covers.<\/p>\n Matthew has been funded by the PRS twice to put on the site specific Voyage In To The Unknowns. Some other good gigs Matthew has got include Cold War Late, V+A museum, Fete d\u02bcEurope, Bordeaux , Etherfest, South Bank Centre, London , Late at the Tate, Tate Britain, London, Bath International Music Festival, Cut and Splice Festival, ICA London, and played with Kathy Hinde\u2019s Piano Migrations all over the world.<\/p>\n He also provide live visuals for various artists notably Langham Research Centre<\/a> , and Tap Sew<\/a><\/p>\n In 2010 Matthew completed one of his favourites residencies at Knowle West Media Centre, Bristol, where he developed self generative computer personalities that make audio visual compositions and argue with the user, called Making Friends and Enemies. Matthew later used this research to make generative personality tools for a UWE research project The Productive Marginals (2014). Matthew continues to develop these systems and has a few at home as friends. Bubble Sort, Fist Of God, and the Beatless<\/a>, being a few of many. Since June 2018 his programs have been streaming their art regularly on the internet.<\/p>\n Matthew has worked a lot with multi speaker systems, he ‘re-imagined’ Shostakovich’s 6th Symphony in octaphonic sound with The Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Askenazy (2005). As a featured artist Featured artist in Powerplant, Liverpool (Nov 08) Matthew, with Jony Easterby started to develop a large multi speaker system integrated with bespoke software. For Jony Easterby\u2019s production Tree and wood (2017) Matthew has been perfecting the Octophonic system and uses it to provide music for the show. additionally he uses the system as a\u00a0 <\/span>sound installation with live performances at\u00a0 <\/span>Nuitblanche Brussels <\/a>\u00a0 <\/span>(sept 2019) and Festival de la Camargue et du Delta du Rh\u00f4ne<\/a> (April 2019) the Camargue show introduced Matthew to Ferdinand Derousen<\/a> who provides breathtakingly beautiful wildlife recordings for Matthew to use in the system.<\/p>\n For the Cryptic show Below The Blanket<\/a> (Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh July 2019) Matthew contributed a large scale sound installation using scientific data to produce a multi-speaker sound scape of the Flow Country. It was nominated\u00a02020 Scottish Awards for New Music.<\/p>\n Together with Kathy Hinde, Matthew is resident composer for Sadhana Dance<\/a>. In the last ten years they have produced 5 nationally touring shows.<\/p>\n For Dr Brendon Walker of Studio Go Go<\/a>, Matthew has provided the sound tracks for many of his projects including The Experiment (2011), and the large scale virtual fairground ride Neurosis (NESTA Futurefest 2015). and developed techniques and composed audio for virtual reality systems and bespoke lighting systems, most notably\u00a0 <\/span>for Keaton Henson<\/a> ,( Six Lethargies,<\/span> Barbican,UK 2018)<\/p>\n Matthew also made his mum and dad proud when he had a 15 second long piece of music on Wildlife On One, presented by David Attenborough, “Geckos, Space Age Lizard”<\/p>\n In\u00a0 <\/span>2018 Matthew presented a series of workshops for the Anti University Program<\/a> , run by BEEF<\/a> in the Max\/Msp programming environment.<\/p>\n Currently Matthew is\u00a0 <\/span>composing music\u00a0 <\/span>for a forthcoming film, Dawn of the Dark Fox<\/a> by Michael smith. And developing \u201csome other bits of software\u201d<\/p>\n Matthew\u2019s work can be viewed on his website\u00a0 <\/span>https:\/\/matthewolden.co.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n Selected teaching<\/p>\n Mentor, Boom, Oxford Contempory Music 2020-2024<\/a><\/p>\n Transmissions : radio art lab 2024<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Hear Water , Bath Spa University , 2022<\/a><\/p>\n 2023 – Camp Pyraneese<\/a><\/p>\n 2024 – Camp Pyraneese<\/a><\/p>\n 2018 Max \/MSP and Pure Data workshops for the Anti University Program Selected Soundtracks<\/p>\n For BiggerHouse Film<\/a>, working with neurodiverse adults and children<\/p>\n what is in my mind? , 2024<\/a><\/p>\n Steve Parker \u00a0 <\/span>,2023<\/a><\/p>\n Up River, A Shadadventure, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n I am Technologist for the\u00a0 <\/span>artist Kathy Hinde <\/a>I have developed many pieces of software.I have designed and built software systems for\u00a0 <\/span>Piano Migrations,Tipping Point,Phase Transition,Luminous Birds, Twittering machines ,Chirp and Drift, Earthquake Mass and Acts of Balancing and Unbalancing.<\/p>\n \n For Subathra Subramaniam<\/a><\/p>\n Pravaas, a touring promenade show 2023, (won The Green Dance Award at the One Dance UK Awards 2024)<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n -Plastic Drastic Fantastic, 2022-2024 , A Multimedia childrens show \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n – The Unkindest Cut, a multimedia dance show that toured the Uk, Sadhana Dance company\u00a0 <\/span>2018-2019.<\/a><\/p>\n – Under my skin –\u00a0 <\/span>original music soundtrack, for Sadhana Dance company UK tour (May 13)<\/a><\/p>\n – Elixir –\u00a0 <\/span>original music soundtrack, for Sadhana Dance company UK tour (Mar 12)<\/a> For Jony Easterby<\/a><\/p>\n Garden of Shadows- National Botanic Gardens, Dublin (Sept 2023)<\/a><\/p>\n –\u00a0 <\/span>Tree and Wood, folk opera (2016-2019)<\/a><\/p>\n -Brussels\u00a0 <\/span>Luminer (sept 2019)<\/p>\n -Festival de la Camargue et du Delta du Rh\u00f4ne (April 2019)<\/a><\/p>\n -For The Birds, Brighton festival<\/a> (2017), Wellington International Festival (2016), Milton Keyes festival (2018) and Durham Luminere (2017 2019)<\/p>\n – Sounding the river (2016)<\/a><\/p>\n For Brendon Walker\/ StudioAgogo, core team member<\/a><\/p>\n -Volo (2019)<\/a><\/p>\n -Vr Playground (2017)<\/a><\/p>\n – Neurosis (NESTA Futurefest 2015).<\/a><\/p>\n – The Experiment (2011)<\/a><\/p>\n – Tell Woman original music soundtrack, for Nikky Smedley (Mar 09)<\/a><\/p>\n – Music for BBC Wildlife on One “Geckos, Space Age Lizard” (Feb 02)<\/p>\n Selected Residencies<\/p>\n Developement of\u00a0 <\/span>PD on da pi webpage (2022)<\/a><\/p>\n Below the Blanket, Data Flow, Edinburgh Botanic Gardens (2018)<\/a><\/p>\n Villa Weberta, (Bavaria 2013)<\/a><\/p>\n The Productive Marginals , UWE (2014)<\/a><\/p>\n Swindon Film Festival 07, a self generative community portrait of Swindon (Oct 07)<\/a><\/p>\n Making Friends And Enemies, residency at Knowle West Media Centre, Bristol (Jun 10)<\/a><\/p>\n Abandon Normal Devices\u00a0 <\/span>festival- artist in residence (In partnership with British Waterways and The Waterways Trust, and part of Rochdale Canal Festival) (aug-october 11)<\/a><\/p>\n Jungulator, NESTA Futurlab 2004<\/a><\/p>\n Visual Collaborations<\/p>\n Langham Research Centre -Blue Dot Festival 2019<\/a><\/p>\n Tapsew <\/a><\/p>\n Keaton Henton ,(\u00a0 <\/span>Lathargies Barbican,UK 2018<\/a>)<\/p>\n Recent Concerts (2024)<\/p>\n We Are Warriors remix – Redcliff caves ,Bristol<\/p>\n Blackmidi2 – Stange Brew, Bristol<\/p>\n Speed Archers – cube cinema , Bristol<\/p>\n AV jumble sale – cube cinema, Bristol<\/p>\n Selected Concerts 2002 – 2011<\/p>\n – Floating Cinema -Barging through London, live soundtrack to film (Aug\u00a0 <\/span>2011) – Norberg Electronic Music Festival, Sweden, performance with Daniel Skoglund and Kathy Hinde (Aug 10)<\/p>\n – Piano Migrations concert, with Kathy Hinde,Concrete and Glass Festival, Hoxton, London, (May 10)<\/p>\n – Elektrostatic, Colston Hall Bristol, live remix of Ligeti performance (May 08)<\/p>\n – Camp 303, Norberg Electronic Music Festival, Sweden (Aug 09)<\/p>\n – Featured artist Powerplant, Site Specific event, Liverpool (Nov 08)<\/p>\n – Cold War Late, V+A museum (Oct 08)<\/p>\n – Hammerfest, Arnolfini, Bristol (Aug 08)<\/p>\n – Hammerfest, John Vigo Centre, Bordeaux (July 08)<\/p>\n – Fete d\u02bcEurope, Bordeaux (May 08)<\/p>\n – Fete d\u02bcEurope, Bordeaux (May 07)<\/p>\n – Bath International Music Festival (June 06)<\/p>\n – Voyage into the Unknown 2, featuring I Walked With a Zombie. (Sept 05)<\/p>\n – ‘Re-imagining’ Shostakovich with the Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Vladimi Ashkenazy, Colston Hall,Bristol (Oct 05)<\/p>\n – Late at the Tate, Tate Britain, London (Sept 2005)<\/p>\n – Diesel-U-Music awards, Fabric, London (July 04)<\/p>\n – Venn Festival Bristol (May 04)<\/p>\n – Etherfest, South Bank Centre, London (Mar 04)<\/p>\n – Voyage Into The Unknown, Bristol\/Bath canal. (Sept 03)<\/p>\n – Supersonic Festival, Custard Factory, Birmingham (July 03)<\/p>\n – ICA London, as part of Cut and Splice Festival (Apr 03)<\/p>\n -Northern Lights Festival, Troms\u00f8 Norway (Feb 02)<\/p>\n Jungulator tv<\/p>\n Fist of God (2020 – present)<\/a><\/p>\n Radio4A<\/a><\/p>\n
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\n– The Shiver original music soundtrack, for Sadhana Dance company UK tour (Mar 10)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n– Mostra SESC De Artes 2010, S\u00e3o Paulo, Piano Migrations with Kathy Hinde (Nov 10)<\/p>\n